She notes that the broadsides examined here "feature stories of witchcraft, husband-murder, and scolding--transgressions that intertwine the fears of female power, musical and acoustic disorder, loquacity, and social imbalance" (4).

Such achievements prompted one commentator to rank Broadside's contributions more highly than anything on either coast: "No other American city can match the record created in Detroit by Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press.

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